In one instance, a platform even reuses the head of a Moai statue ... Hancock highlights oral traditions on Easter Island that describe people arriving from an island called Hiva, which was ...
Nearly 1,000 of these statues were built starting in the 13th century A.D. by the Rapa Nui people. These statues, often called “Easter Island heads,” actually have full bodies, many hidden ...
On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos ... in the history of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, the name given by the indigenous people to their island in the ...
"But sometimes, people take micro bits of data and turn ... Hancock rebuffed the criticism, suggesting the Easter Island heads are independent of other similar statues and do not share many ...
The heavy rectangular head is huge ... What actually the Easter Island sculpture does, it gives just the essence of a person. Every sculptor since Rodin has looked to primitive sculpture, because ...
people take micro bits of data and turn them into macro-interpretations to support claims that are not entirely substantiated." Hancock has rebuffed this, suggesting the Easter Island heads are ...
The island, home to approximately 1,000 large stone heads ... "[Easter Island] is one of the most amazing places on planet Earth that I have been to. It is riddled with mystery...But sometimes ...